Sorrell bashes ‘wounded animal’ IPG

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True to his chosen profession, WPP CEO Martin Sorrell knows how to turn a colorful phrase. Take his comments Thursday morning at the International Advertising Association New York chapter’s Global Marketing Summit. Asked about other advertising holding companies, he described Interpublic Group as a company that has taken to making “irrational acts of a wounded animal.” The comment came a day after word surfaced that IPG was in talks to combine its Draft and Foot Cone & Belding agencies.

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